+14%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown rose 14% between 2017 and 2020 ($8.6k → $9.9k).
West Virginia · Private for-profit · Predominantly associate's
West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown
Morgantown, West Virginia. 584 undergraduate students. 17 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
+21%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown rose 21% between 2021 and 2024 (558 → 673).
-14%
First-year retention
First-year retention at West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown fell 14% between 2019 and 2022 (74.4% → 64.1%).
+20%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown rose 20% between 2023 and 2024 (59.0% → 71.1%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. West Virginia
Each tile compares this institution to the West Virginia median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$31,912+4% · 6→10y
West Virginia median $37,714$30,544
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry59.0%+36% · '98→'24
West Virginia median 61.2%$8,178+276% · '97→'20
At program completion584+238% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS—-8% · '04→'22
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort$14,313+99% · '00→'24
out-of-state $14,313SECTION 02 · EARNINGS HORIZONS
How earnings spread, 4 to 10 years after entry
Treasury tax-record earnings for federally aided students who first enrolled at this institution. Each point is a horizon from the most-recent vintage. Single median per horizon (no p25/p75 publishing).
Earnings widen with time post-entry. Selection: federal-aid recipients only — not all graduates.Methodology →
SECTION 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
3.4%Median federal debt $8,178 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $31,912 (10y after entry).
SECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Undergraduate enrollment.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+36%
West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown · completion · 150% rose
52.2% → 71.1%
+237%
West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown · undergrad enrollment rose
199 → 673
+99%
West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown · in-state tuition rose
$7,425 → $14,798
+99%
West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown · out-of-state tuition rose
$7,425 → $14,798
+276%
West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown · median debt rose
$2,625 → $9,881
-100%
West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown · cohort default rate fell
3.8% → 0.0%
+51%
West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown · earnings_median_10yr rose
$21,100 → $31,912
+71%
West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown · earnings_median_8yr rose
$18,800 → $32,225
+68%
West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown · earnings_median_6yr rose
$18,200 → $30,544
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$69,186Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants.$45,745Computer and Information Sciences, General.$45,481Business Administration, Management and Operations.$36,307Health and Medical Administrative Services.$29,150
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
5 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown
Pick a program. Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. The selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. Outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.
Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
-$67,467
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
—
Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $17,960
- HS-only baseline · WV
- $32,100
- Years to complete
- 2
- CIP family
- 51
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in West Virginia
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown graduates earn $X” — not “West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending West Virginia Junior College-Morgantown caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.